Hmm, I wonder if they will let me polish the lamps when I am there.

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

Hmm, I wonder if they will let me polish the lamps when I am there. Do all genies have to give you wishes, I wonder? Maybe don't open Pandora's chest.

#djinn #genie #random

[the@ultracrepidarian.mysteriar.ch]

@ai6yr

Sorry, but Pandora's box is one of those expressions that just sends me…

"On the floor of Jove's palace there stand two urns, the one filled with evil gifts, and the other with good ones. He for whom Jove the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune; but he to whom Jove sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men."

So "Pandora's box" is a misnomer; according to the actual myth, there were two urns, one good and other bad. She opened one not knowing what it was, and it was the bad one. She tried to close it in time when she realized what she'd done, but she was too slow; the only thing left was Hope.

The moral of the story is that she opened the wrong one, obviously.
/s (kindov)